| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| : | 2009 |
| Authors: | B. A. Gresham, Watson, M. C., Withers, T. M. |
| Journal: | New Zealand Entomologist |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Pagination: | 55-58 |
| Date Published: | 2009 |
| : | 0077-9962 |
| : | Cleopus japonicus |
| : | Buddleia, Buddleja davidii, is a fast-growing woody weed in New Zealand. The buddleia leaf weevil Cleopus japonicus was released in 2006 as a classical biological control agent for buddleia and is now established in the North Island. The laboratory rearing method developed and a morphological method of sexing the adults of this external leaf-feeding weevil are described. |
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